Once you use your EAD then you are no longer F1 ,but you can still study. May be some confusion.
I always think it is a good idea to maintain status and not be reliant on adjusting. I assume you had a study plan coming to the US.
Nowhere has freedom of speech does amuse me how things have changed you enact policies that have negative impacts double down and then here comes the surveillance when there is the blowback
I have been watching this for as long as I can remember certainly well before woke, nothing has happened of consequence, doubt anything will in the near future